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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 11h

Woo hoo!! Get yours here:

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 16h

Kash is exactly the kind of guy that was in JROTC in high school, had no friends, and when he hears you’re a vet says, “yeah, I would’ve joined but… (some bullshit)”

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 16h

>not a veteran
>wall full of challenge coins

Kash Patel wearing the corniest Christmas camo punisher skull sweatshirt with his own podcast advertised on the sleeve, wearing his own merch hat too and another behind him, in front of an American flag challenge coin holder that also contains stickers for his podcast

buster bluth in fatigues with arms full of stuffed animals. "these are my awards, mother. from army."

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Hana Michels (Personal Account) @hanamichels.bsky.social · 16h

If you are a woman or female presenting in the Valley look out for a man with glasses and this plate. Took it off a TikTok video in which LITERALLY HUNDREDS of women reported him asking for help moving a box from his backseat to his trunk with a fake bandage around his arm, something Ted Bundy did.

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 1d

I am available for commissions, no gender bias. lol

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 1d

Boyfriend experience where I wash your dishes and actively listen to you talk about your day

Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 1d

girlfriend experience where you come over and wash my hair because I'm too tired and then we watch a movie on the couch and cuddle.

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 1d

Those bubbles sure look like they’re ready to pop

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 1d

Bari was 1000% a huge fan of The Newsroom

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 2d

Bold Party Blend?

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve said many times that for anyone who’s talked about what they would’ve done to fight back against slavery or the holocaust, it’s time to put up or shut up

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✨🌯 jamie @glitterburrito.bsky.social · 2d

my friend’s mid-60s yr old mother is chasing ICE in WalMart with her cane in a hyper conservative section of [state redacted],
I have to laugh at everyone making excuses to not be doing more

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 2d

Pete Davidson is the perfect spokesperson for Axe body spray because he has exactly the vibe of a 30 year old man that still uses it

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SoloChills @solochills.blacksky.app · 2d

While we're at it, fuck Bill Maher too

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago press organizations, along with @unraveledpress.com, @peoplesfabric.com, and @blockclubchi.bsky.social are suing DHS and ICE for detaining and assaulting journalists. Journalists in LA were successful in their suits against the dept.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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𝙾𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚊 @highnessophelia.bsky.social · 2d

my gift to you today 🥹

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 3d

"“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours and share our responsibility to Mother Earth,” Redman said. “We’re asserting our sovereignty. We’re here to give them notice that we have our trade corridor and we’re implementing that.”"

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 3d

The entire sport of parkour is just this

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 3d

This is what happens when we work together and fight back. We keep each other safe

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 3d

Shore up your rainy day fund right now because if you don’t remember what it was like to be part of the workforce during the 08 recession, it’s about to be just as bad

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 3d

And THAT is a completely fair thing to be concerned about. I’m completely on board with having a better understanding of how something works, and the things it is good/bad at, before trying to widely implement it the way billionaires seem to be doing irresponsibly.

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 3d

Just understanding rules is not creativity. And I’m sorry, but as it exists, ai is built on stealing other people’s work without permission or attribution, so even if you want to argue that it exhibits SOME aspects of thought, it would still be unethical to use

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 3d

The value of human brains is that we can do more than just rote memorization. We have wisdom. Knowledge is remembering that Ranch is a salad dressing, wisdom is knowing that it doesn’t belong on fruit salad

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Cristian Ramirez @cristianramirez.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re forced to do a bunch of work to “fine tune” your results, then you’re proving my point. Just hire a human to do it. AI tools don’t reason because if you gave a human access to all the culinary knowledge in the world it wouldn’t tell you to put glue on pizza

www.forbes.com/sites/jackke...

Google's AI Recommends Glue on Pizza: What Caused These Viral Blunders?

Sometimes the most prominent companies make unforced errors that can harm their reputations, and Google is no exception. Find out what's behind the company's latest viral outrage.

www.forbes.com

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